ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,491, issued on July 7, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).

"System and method for providing search results with popularity indicators" was invented by Alexander Shtoff (Haifa, Israel), Fiana Raiber (Karmiel, Israel), Yaroslav Fyodorov (Haifa, Israel) and Ran Moshe (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the present disclosure, one or more computing devices and/or methods are provided. In an example, a query may be received from a client device. In response to the query, a set of search results corresponding to a set of internet resources associated with the query may be generated. The set of ...